OVERVIEW
Carrying great loads requires firm ground beneath your feet.
A port is a facility where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land. Port locations are selected to optimize access to land and navigable water for commercial purposes and for shelter from wind and waves. Often breakwaters are required to be constructed to provide such shelters. Ports with deep water are rare and it is essential to carry out capital dredging, followed by maintenance dredging. Deep waters to handle larger economical ships of higher capacity and larger drafts.
Ground improvement
Strata solutions for ground improvement are very versatile and can be engineered for very heavy container loads on soft subgrades and reduce differential settlements by a large margin thereby reducing operational inefficiencies. StrataWeb® can be infilled with stone, sand or other locally available materials and avoid the need for concrete slabs, offering high economy in the pavement. Be it for parking areas for trailers, bulk storage yards or heavy 8 stack container yards, Strata solutions can be custom engineered to provide a safe and durable solution.
Access roads
Access roads leading to a port are generally heavily trafficked and have low subgrade strengths leading to lower efficiency, increase in the operational cost and reduced turnaround times for container vehicles. Strata ground improvement solutions help in improving the bearing capacity of subgrades, reduce differential settlements, are easy and rapid to construct, can be engineered for site-specific challenges and can make use of locally available materials.
Our products for ports container yards
StrataWeb® (Product)
StrataGrid™ Uniaxial Geogrids (Product)
More success stories
StrataWeb® geocells – A slope erosion protection system for embankments
The Jordan Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) was planning to build a petroleum strategic reserves terminal in the east of Amman, Jordan. They wanted to increase the petroleum storage capacity in the area, which required an increase in the base width of the embankment. The slopes of the embankment required protection from slope erosion.
Slope protection of partial wall on flyover using StrataWeb® geocells
The ramps of the grade separators are constructed either as embankments with natural slopes or as reinforced soil walls. In the case of partial walls, where sloped embankments are supported on reinforced soil walls, the embankment slopes needed to be given adequate protection against soil erosion, which could otherwise damage the fascia of the underlying reinforced soil wall and also induce seepage into the system. The slopes of the embankments were of the order of 30° with the horizontal. The reinforced soil walls supporting the embankments were as high as 10 m. The heights of the embankments were of the order of 5 m.
Rehabilitation of road in the busy city town centre in Karnataka
Monsoons in North Karnataka are notorious for damage to roads. The site was plagued with problems like reflective cracks, potholes, undulating surfaces etc., resulting in slow traffic movement and heavy vehicular damage. This stretch had to be rehabilitated time and again over the past several years, and no solution was proving to be long-term. Since the area is a major commercial hub, it was impossible to close off this section for an extended period completely, so a quick but long-term solution was needed.
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